On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:53:37AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:47:48AM +0100 or thereabouts, Frank Peelo wrote:
> > Steve McConville wrote:
> > >>Come to that, with 1Gb of RAM, do I need to bother
> > >>increasing swap? I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
> > >
> > >
> > >Short answer is 'no', IMHO. If you're running the same software as
> > >before then your need for swap has decreased with fatter ram.
> >
> > When he suspends the machine, will the RAM image in swap not need more
> > space?
>> _If_ he suspends the machine. Who suspends desktops these days?
>> Conor
I've sometimes used it if I was working on something and I didn't want
to close it all down, but at the same time I didn't want to leave the
system running for 4+ hours not doing anything.
--
Darragh
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